Do you have any diffeculty killing elite mobs? so far in the war within i have played tanks which have zero problems with elites…
do you kill those elites with enh or elemental?
Admittedly I’m just playing low level content but I think I can somewhat compare (and help with). Granted I’m biased against hard cast classes due to mostly playing Classic and pushback is real.
Try enhancement. While my ret paladin (this) is relatively struggling (needs to heal herself), the shaman is fairly invincible (and faster). I prefer passive play, so I took talents which generally improve my percentages. Earth Shield (the healing one) keeps me at 100% health normally. Can spend some Maelstrom stacks to heal myself (eventually 10). There is Greater Earth Elemental totem (and a few others I never use) to handle big mobs I guess (never had to use it so far). You can also take a healing totem which again just helps by ticking it up.
I’m pretty sure not a single one of these talents is taken for cookie cutter pushing builds, but for solo game they are super helpful. I’m killing fast anyway, so the added value is convenience which should help in more difficult content to keep afloat.
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As Resto, everything outside the world bosses is soloable but at a slow pace. There isn’t even danger of dying despite intentionally standing still to get hit by everything.
As Enhancement it’s trickier because Enhancement innately has less passive survivability than Resto (in fact I’d say that Enhancement can die thrice as fast as Resto if afk). The key is to either save all Maelstrom for using Healing Surge on yourself, or going Warmode and picking up the PvP-exclusive talent that makes spending Maelstrom on any ability to also affect the next Healing Surge too. Yes, you lose quite some damage, but you trade it for surviving.
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